She’s the face of the city’s newest mural, the cheeky pirate keeping watch over the city from her perch at the Barras.

‘The Barras Pirate’ looks out from one of the old walls at the side of Glasgow’s marketplace and, judging by the reaction from passers by, is going to be a very popular addition to the city’s family of murals.

But just who is the face beneath the hat - and how did they get there?

The answer is a six-year-old girl from the southside of Glasgow called Lola Murphy, whose choice of clothes on a family day out turned her into the city’s most famous swashbuckler.

“We’ve been out going on long walks each day on the holidays,” said Lola’s Dad, photographer Simon Murphy. “She just decided she wanted to be a pirate that day and Biba, my other daughter, wanted to be an explorer.

“I just took a wee snap while we were out, then Rogue One saw it and got in touch.”

Rogue actually had another plan in mind for the space, until he spotted Simon’s snap on Instagram.

“I know Simon, have worked with him before and have been friends with him on Instagram for a while now,” he explained. “I spotted the post and just thought the composition, the outfit, everything, made it a great wee photograph.

“I had a plan for this wall originally, it was more of a fun piece, with a monkey swinging on a branch but I thought ‘this could be the only piece I do like this in Glasgow this year - do I really want to waste it on a daft monkey thing?’ Then I saw Simon’s picture and got in touch with him.”

Lola, Simon and the Murphy family were at BAaD yesterday to see the piece being painted and heaping the pressure on Rogue, who admits he spent part of the day worrying about getting ‘every detail right.’